Team Building Speakers - The Lavin Agency

Jay Van Bavel

Professor of Psychology & Neural Science at NYU | Award-Winning Author of The Power of Us

To build powerful teams, you need to harness the power of a shared team identity.

Stephanie Mehta

CEO and Chief Content Officer of Inc. and Fast Company

Any company can become a Fast Company by pushing their creative boundaries.

Mary C. Murphy

Bestselling Author of Cultures of Growth | Indiana University Professor | Founder and CEO, Equity Accelerator

A growth mindset isn’t just for individuals. You can develop it in your whole organization, and unlock radical collaboration and innovation.

Modupe Akinola

Speaker on Stress and Leadership in the Workplace | Professor, Columbia Business School | Host, TED Business Podcast | Expert, Limitless with Chris Hemsworth

Stress affects our performance at work. But the best leaders don’t buckle under it—they harness it to thrive.

Tessa West

Author of Jerks at Work and Job Therapy | NYU Professor of Psychology

We all face uncomfortable situations at work. By learning how to navigate them, leaders can boost their teams' productivity, creativity, and innovation.

Jessica Nordell

Author of The End of Bias | Award-winning science and culture journalist

Bias has a real cost for your organization. Fighting it is your greatest superpower.

Denise Hamilton

Author of Indivisible: How to Forge Our Differences into a Stronger Future | Founder and CEO of WatchHerWork

Technology changes how we work. But people—the vital "human infrastructure" of every organization—determine whether we succeed.

Dan Lerner

Positive Psychologist | Instructor of NYU’S “The Science of Happiness” | Strengths-Based Performance Coach

The overlooked key to high performance? Passion.

Alison Wood Brooks

Harvard Business School Behavioral Science Professor | "40 Under 40 MBA Professor" | Author of TALK: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves

Better conversations can improve how people lead, collaborate, make decisions, build trust, and experience an organization’s products and services.

Bree Groff

Author, Today Was Fun: A Book About Work (Seriously) | Workplace Culture Expert | Senior Advisor, SYPartners

Work can be fun. Seriously!

Julia Minson

Harvard Kennedy School Professor | National Bestselling Author, How to Disagree Better

Learn the practical strategies that will help you harness disagreement as a catalyst for innovation, insight, and thriving at work and in life.

Michael Townsend

Featured Artist in the Top 10 Netflix Documentary Secret Mall Apartment | Tape Art Founder

We can solve our biggest personal and social challenges with art, collaboration, and a willingness to turn ideas into action.

Matthew Bidwell

Author, The Insider Advantage | Professor, Wharton | Faculty Director, Wharton People Analytics Initiative

In a world obsessed with flexibility, staying power is the key to sustainable success—for individuals and organizations alike.

Tom Wujec

World Renowned Expert on Innovation | Former Chief Disruptor at Autodesk | Author of The Future of Making

An era of continuous disruption is changing, forever, how we design, manufacture, and consume.

Lera Boroditsky

Cognitive Scientist | Expert in the Fields of Language and Cognition

How do humans get so smart? Language: it shapes our minds and the world around us.

Corinne Low

Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at Wharton | 2024 "Top 40 Under 40" Business Professor | Author, Having It All

Make your workplace work for women, and watch your whole organization soar.

Misha Glouberman

Negotiations Expert | Co-Author of The Chairs Are Where the People Go

Virtual environments aren’t the end of human connection—as long as we communicate effectively.

Manjit Minhas

Co-Founder and CEO of Minhas Breweries, Distilleries and Wineries | Owner of the 9th Largest Brewery in the World

To succeed in uncertainty, the best leaders adapt quickly, negotiate boldly, and keep moving forward.

Jonathan Fader

Performance psychologist | Head of the MLB Players Association Mental Health Division | Former Director of Mental Conditioning for the New York Giants | Author of Life as Sport

From star athletes to office workers—to achieve success, you first have to visualize success.

Erin Meyer

INSEAD professor | Author of The Culture Map and No Rules Rules

How can we navigate—and make the most of—complex cultural differences in the workplace?

Charles Montgomery

Founder of Happy Cities | Award-Winning Journalist | Author of Happy City

Our relationships are shaped by design—which means that better design can help us rebuild trust, connection, and community.

Lewis MacKenzie

One of the World’s Most Respected Military Heroes

The true mark of leadership is not how we handle the good times, but how we manage the bad.

Team Building

The strength of your teams makes or breaks your organization. How do you build diverse teams that communicate well across differences, that reach their full creative potential, and that are greater than the sum of their parts? Lavin’s speakers can show you how.